The Rae Lee Siporin LGBT Center library is one of the largest library of its kind at a college or university with nearly 4000 books and periodicals written for and about LGBT people. Students, faculty, and staff may study here, research the holdings, or plug in their own laptop computers to write. Books may be read here or checked out with your UC identification. Through a generous grant from the Liberty Hill Foundation, the library has been fully catalogued and is easily searched. Candace Lewis was hired in 2004 as a graduate level librarian, to catalogue the library and prepare it for use. Since then, Candace has encouraged the UCLA School of Information Science to establish the LGBT Library as a training site for other graduate level Information Science students who have made the Library accessible via our website. We are deeply grateful to those very talented and dedicated students

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The Rae Lee Siporin Library is run by our Library & Archive OUTReach student organization, an organization in the Department of Information Studies. OUTReach is committed to serving the information needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) professional library and archival community at UCLA, and the LGBT information and access needs of UCLA students and individuals at large.

Library & Archive OUTReach provides its members, affiliates, and the library, archival, and information studies field with a forum for discussion and an environment for education regarding the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender professional community and population at large.

Click here for more information on the Library & Archive OUTReach organization

Below is a volunteer calendar for our fabulous volunteers! Stop by to check out the library and meet our librarians!